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...Spring Harbor, she does not splice, cut or reshuffle the genes of viruses and bacteria. Rather, for the past four decades, Geneticist Barbara McClintock has been carefully breeding and crossbreeding corn, trying to cull from it some kernels of truth about the secrets of genetic diversity, just as the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel did in his famous pea patch more than a century ago. McClintock's colleagues, caught up in the latest wizardry of genetic engineering, have long marveled at the skill and diligence with which she pursued such classical genetics, but they were sometimes patronizing about her work...
ENGAGED. Princess Marie-Astrid, 27, eldest daughter of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Karl Christian von Habsburg-Lorraine, 27, Brussels banker, son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and grandson of the late Austrian Emperor Karl I; in Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Astrid made headlines last year because she was the last eligible princess to be linked with Britain's Prince Charles before he chose Lady Diana Spencer. Astrid's wedding is planned...
Haig also commands international respect. After entering the higher level foreign policy apparatus as an aide to former Secretary of State Henry. A Kissinger '50, he served as commander of NATO forces. To those who would have Haig replaced, one might suggest the words of the Austrian statesman, Prince Metternich, who once said, "An intelligent man can make up the lack of everything except experience." At a time when the question of nuclear weapons deployment on European soil threatens the alliance as never before, the respect Haig commands among European leaders may prove invaluable. But this potentially tremendous influence...
Moreover, Kuehnelt-Leddihn, who refuses to vote in his native Austrian elections, downplayed all forms of self-government, saying, "It is more important to live under a good government than voice an insignificant single vote in a democracy...
...Detroit that is in jeopardy," he says. "The reason is that FICA has upped its demands for prize money from 1.25 million to two million, and the organizers just can't pay it. Also, I think--and you have to check on this--that the Spanish Grand Prix and Austrian Grand Prix are off the 1982 schedule as well for the same reason. Two million dollars is just unreasonable--no track in the world will pay that...